Posted on 12/10/2010 8:21:31 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan
Good to do more than lurk so I can “see” you as well, but...
Well, back to work-n-lurk.
Yes, of course. I should have said “so much of the country.” California is just hopeless, and if the fed bails them out, any chance of their recovery will be pretty much gone. I grew up there and my siblings still live there; it used to be so different...
The poor don’t have any money, according to the Democratics, so how can the rich be stealing from them?
To what does the 771 in your tagline refer? Retirement date? Good for you! I still have three years, eight months, and 19 days to go.
A better question is how does what someone earns affect someone else’s earnings?
Senate moving fast on $858 billion tax plan
MarketWatch ^ | Dec. 10, 2010, 10:40 a.m. EST | Jeffry Bartash, MarketWatch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2640792/posts
Excellent rant, Rush!!!
Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report Domain (INFOWAR)
Twitter @Drudgereport ^ | 12/10/2010 | Eriq Gardner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2640814/posts
I’ve wanted Mitch gone since the last election. ***Sigh*** Mitch is no friend to conservatives or anyone...except himself.
A Trojan Horse Pork Bill Passes the House
American Thinker ^ | 12/10/10 | K.E. Campbell
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 2:50:07 PM by American Dream 246
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2640811/posts
Washington is ignoring the mandate of voters, and sneaking through pork, as the media avert their eyes.
On Wednesday, the still-Democrat-controlled House approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through September 30, 2011, or until the new Congress can produce a budget. According to The Hill, this Continuing Resolution was needed “because Congress failed to pass any of the 12 regular appropriations bills for 2011, in addition to failing to pass a budget resolution at all for the first time since 1974.” The federal budget is supposed to be finished by October 1, the start of the government’s fiscal year, otherwise “continuing resolutions” are required to keep government running.
The Resolution that passed included, among many other things, passage of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which the Senate had passed last month but was returned to the House due to an overlooked Constitutional requirement.
The Resolution now heads to the Senate where Democrats intend to “amend” it into a massive Omnibus spending bill, already affectionately deemed Cromnibus (cram + omnibus). Fox News reports that “Senate Democrats are planning to add more money, including thousands of pet projects sought by lawmakers.” According to The Hill, the Senate bill “would provide about $19 billion more in funding than the House Resolution and would contain congressional earmarks.” The Washington Examiner reports that the Senate bill will include a “massive federal land and water grab.” In the rush to wrap up matters before the end of the year and the 111th Congress, details such as normal legislative oversight will be pushed aside.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) opposes to Omnibus bill, saying it includes a stealth provision to fund ObamaCare. According to Sen. Coburn:
“The bill provides $19 million to the IRS for dictating health insurance under the new health law — a small but significant opening salvo in the push to give IRS tax bureaucrats power over Americans’ health care. The legislation also spends $12 million on an unelected panel of bureaucrats who will issue costly mandates, make coverage decisions for all Americans, and could deny patient choice under the guise of ‘prevention.’
“The bill also provides a fat $3.6 billion check for Dr. Donald Berwick, the new head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to be used for non-descript ‘program management.’ The fact that Dr. Berwick continues to evade questions from members of the press and public raises serious questions about his intended purpose for these funds.
“Other funding for the new health law in the bill seems to reflect the desire of congressional appropriators to micromanage and make decisions in areas in which they have limited knowledge and expertise...”
Sen. Coburn likens the maneuver to a Trojan horse. He favors repeal of ObamaCare and replacing it with health reforms that will “truly lower costs and improve health care quality and access.”
Cromnibus: the latest example of the ruling class governing against the will of the people.
Funny. Drudge isn’t reporting it.
HOSTS File Blocklist of RIGHTHAVEN Clients as of Dec 5 2010
Dec 10 2010 | JerseyHighlander
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 2:46:46 PM by JerseyHighlander
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2640808/posts
Sen. Lindsey Graham plots return to energy talks (or was we call it “ A Fool’s Work is Never Done”)
the hill ^ | 12/10/10 | Ben Geman and Andrew Restuccia
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 2:17:05 PM by bestintxas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2640787/posts
As Rush was discussing:
Bernie Sanders vows to use speaking filibuster to prevent tax vote
Twitter ^ | 12/10/2010 | Bernie Sanders
Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 1:56:25 PM by rumrunner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2640779/posts
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VM) is using a true speaking filibuster to prevent vote that stops a tax raise
That’s the number of days left before The O leaves office.
Retire?
I don’t see that as a possibility any more.
July 19, 2010
Trent Lott [R] on Tea Party candidates: ‘As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them’
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/07/19/trent-lott-on-tea-party-candidates-as-soon-as-they-get-here-we-need-to-co-opt-them/
12:27 pm July 19, 2010, by Jay
The money quote from a Washington Post piece on the Tea Party and Washington’s GOP establishment:
Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” Lott said in an interview. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”
But Lott said he’s not expecting a tea-party sweep. “I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people,” he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/17/AR2010071702375.html?hpid=topnews
Republican lawmakers gird for rowdy tea party
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Ok, now I am really, really confused as to what time the game starts.
Clint, you are apparently on EDT
AG, you are apparently in AZ on MST
I am on CDT....which should mean that I am on AZ time, so whatever time the game starts in AZ is the time it starts here? 7:30, IIRC???
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